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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whaddaya think?
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:22:51 -0700
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On 6/17/2024 12:39 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2024-06-17, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> On 6/16/24 12:20, DFS wrote:
>>> On 6/15/2024 6:22 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
>> ...
>>>>> 	return(0);
>>>>
>>>> A minor style point: a return statement doesn't require parentheses.
>>>> IMHO using parentheses make it look too much like a function call.  I'd
>>>> write `return 0;`, or more likely I'd just omit it, since falling off
>>>> the end of main does an implicit `return 0;` (starting in C99).
>>>
>>> Can't omit it.  It's required by my brain.
> 
> I think DFS might mean that they find themselves unable to omit the
> unnecessary return 0 statement entirely.
> 
> I also hate it; I feel that the implicit return 0 in main is a
> misfeature that was added due to caving in to bad programmers.
> 
> Making int main(void) { } correct is like legalizing weed.
> Potheads are still potheads. Since I'm not one, I write a
> return statement in main.
[...]

Indeed! Toke, Toke...

Peter Tosh - Legalize It (Audio)

https://youtu.be/6cIePqdz03A

lol. :^)